Debbie Harry
In terms of strangeness, there’s one experience that stands out. It was the
late Seventies and we were booked to play at our first big festival, in
Barcelona. We arrived at 3am and went into our dressing room to find Nico of
the Velvet Underground in there, shooting up. We were all huge Velvet
Underground fans so this left us speechless. Then she went out on the stage
with her little harmonium without saying a thing. We went on stage at 8am,
to play a set in front of 200,000 sleeping Spaniards. It was huge and our
first